Product Description: How many otherwise well-educated readers know that the familiar orange carrot was once a novelty? It is a little more than 400 years old. Domesticated in Afghanistan in 900 AD, the purple carrot, in fact, was the dominant variety until Dutch gardeners bred the young upstart in the seventeenth century...read more

Product Description: “What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why: I’m a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I’d highly recommend that you do not read his book...read more

Product Description: When Anne Else married at the age of 19, she had never cooked a meal, despite having grown up above a grocery shop. That shaky start notwithstanding, she went on to become an enthusiastic cook—with a bit of help from Elizabeth David, Nancy Spain, Katharine Whitehorn, and the Duchess of Windsor...read more

Product Description: Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road 2014 James Beard Award Nominee and 2014 Society of Travel Writers Foundation Thomas Lowell Travel Journalism Bronze Award Winner for Travel Book Join us at the table for this 34-course banquet of original stories from food-obsessed writers and chefs sharing their life-changing food experiences...read more

Product Description: In Snacks: Adventures in Food, Aisle by Aisle, Marcy Smothers entices with delectable recipes that will make you a better cook, a savvier shopper, and a particularly well-informed foodie.Snacks is more than a guided tour through the grocery store; it's an epicurean adventure, with original recipes, color photographs, helpful tips, and culinary secrets that you won't find anywhere else...read more

Product Description: Toast is Nigel Slater’s truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as he takes readers on a tour of the contents of his family’s pantry—rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda, mince pies, lemon drops, bourbon biscuits—we are transported...read more

A culinary, rock-and-roll odyssey around the world, written by the lead singer of the popular group Franz Ferdinand, describes a variety of gastronomic encounters, from a donut-shop in a Polish-speaking section of Brooklyn, to bull's testicles in Buenos Aires, to an almost-vegetarian buffet in Singapore. Original. 35,000 first printing.

What do we learn from eating? About ourselves? Others? In this unique memoir of a life shaped by the pleasures of the table, Doris Friedensohn uses eating as an occasion for inquiry. Munching on quesadillas and kimchi in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, she reflects on her exploration of food over fifty years and across four continents. Relishing couscous in Tunisia and khachapuri in the Republic of Georgia, she explores the ways strangers come together and maintain their differences through food. As a young woman, Friedensohn was determined not to be a provincial American. Chinese, French, Mexican, and Mediterranean cuisines beckoned to her like mysterious suitors. She responded, pursuing suckling pig, snails, baba ghanoush, tripe, jellyfish, and anything with rosemary or cumin. Each rendezvous with an unfamiliar food was a celebration of cosmopolitan living. Friedensohn's memories range from Thanksgiving at a Middle Eastern restaurant to the taste of fried grasshoppers in Oaxaca. Her wry dramas of the dining room, restaurant, market, and kitchen ripple with tensions―political, religious, psychological, and spiritual. Eating as I Go is one woman's distinctive mélange of memoir, traveler's tale, and cultural commentary.

Product Description: Women's relationships with food are passionate and obsessive, embracing and comforting, complex and frustrating. This savory sampling of stories — by some of the best writers in and out of the food and travel fields — journeys to the heart of these age-old relationships, taking readers from the familiar kitchens of contemporary America to the far reaches of the globe...read more

The author offers a culinary tour of the world's most exotic foods, taking readers on a journey that will cover the wide territory stretching between the most expensive restaurants in Europe to villages in the Phillipines where poeple eat congealed blood from wooden bowls. Original.

Some of America's leading chefs share personal childhood reminiscences and treasured recipes from the family kitchen, in a heartwarming cookbook that celebrates the rich diversity of America's culinary heritage with a collection that includes such contributions as Alice Waters's Grilled Corn, Stuffed Artichokes from Marion Cunningham, Patrick O'Connell's Rhubarb Pizza, and many more.

Product Description: A cookbook with a difference, The Gastronomical Tourist combines more than 250 easy-to-prepare bistro recipes with an elegant and witty remembrance of things past. Author Arthur Bloomfield serves up culinary adventures abroad, without forgetting the edible treasures in his own backyard...read more

Contributors including M. F. K. Fisher, P. J. O'Rourke, and Colin Thubron recount culinary journeys that follow a pilgrimage in Casablanca for an authentic meal, a mysterious prankster in a southern France garden, and a crabbing expedition beneath a Caribbean sky. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In these wide-ranging tales from a life on the road, Vietnam vet and “adventure eater” Richard Sterling takes the reader deep into the heart of cultures, from Asia to Africa to North America. Whether breaking bread with a murderer in the Baja desert or enjoying a shipboard dalliance with a mysterious new acquaintance on the South China Sea, Sterling’s faith in humanity is continually renewed through the sharing of food, drink, and passion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Some of the world's greatest women writers contribute sensual, beautiful, sometimes obsessive stories about food from across the globe, including contributions from Isabel Allende, M. F. K. Fisher, Ruth Reichl, and Frances Mayes, among others. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Food — its smells, textures, colors, flavors, and rituals — is tied intrinsically to place. This heartwarming, surprising, and sumptuous collection of stories reveals our obsession with how food nourishes and sustains us, teaches us about other cultures, and creates community and connection with others...read more

Collects stories about dining experiences in various countries of the world

Product Description: From the author of The Deluxe Transitive Vampire comes this delightful collection of writings about food, drink, and the art of eating. Drawing on excerpts from more than 50 writers--Barthes, Balzac, Mandelstam, McPhee, Marquez, and Joyce among them--Gordon gives us a funny, surprising, and wonderfully macabre book...read more

A host of revealing stories blends celebrity antics and food and includes such anecdotes as George Washington's favorite meal (four large omelettes) and Franklin D. Roosevelt's partaking of 'Uncle Joe's Bounty' (caviar sent by Stalin during the war).